Climate camp protesters target RBS

Climate change protesters target Edinburgh during this summer's Festival in a campaign against the Royal Bank of Scotland. The action, at RBS's HQ in Gogarburn, has been taken in protest at taxpayers' money allegedly being used to prop up big business and fund the destruction of the planet.

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[jobbyjabberjamborry]

I was watching one of your videos like this when your colleagues tried to gain access to the RBS HQ, for some reason, outside Edinburgh. I don’t know if you already know this but if you find out if they or any other corporation or individual have received tax exemption/relief on purchasing a work of art (which happens), by anybody, and have it on their premises you can arrange to view the work like you would in an art gallery. So if you want to do that you can go through the doors.

[18T220]

@vitkiktiv

I prefer nuklear power myself, If we find away to dispose the waste safely I think nuclear fusion will be the future and for transport like cars hydrogen fuel. This is all over 20 years away. Until then i'll get taxed for using fossil fuels. :)

[vitkiktiv]

@18T220 You are absolutely right we will still need fossil fuels to produce all those things, but at some point we need to wean our selves off from fossil fuels and the aim of protesting is to make people aware of the problem. A lot of the tech is available, some are in fact really old like the solar updraft invented in 1903 and only recently put into practice.

[18T220]

@vitkiktiv

Also tax payers own 70% of RBS so all you where doing is slowing down you're own forced investment.

I work for RBS at this building and you just looked like a bunch of little kids, I bought alot of shares in RBS 2 months ago because it can't get much lower so the only way is up. Give up you can't make a difference, renewable projects aren't cost effective.

[18T220]

@vitkiktiv

What do you mean you had you're own electricity? Even if you had you're own wind turbine that would have used fossil fuels to make and deliver. Also vegetables are harvested by machines that use fossil fuels then delivered to shops in trucks.

The earth is heating up naturally anyway without mans input, granted we are speeding up the process but the fact is the US & China are the worse carbon offenders and without there help its a waste of time protesting.

[vitkiktiv]

@18T220 (3)And just so you know I do have a job I'm a lecturer at a university teaching Horticulture and Plant material studies :)

just put the part 1 -3 behind each other the reply was a bit longer than youtube allows

[vitkiktiv]

@18T220 (2)Just so you know we had our own electricity there which were all generated from renewable sources -wind and solar- our diet and most activist's diet are vegan which have a smaller carbon footprint than meat (I'm not saying you should become a vegan that is entirely up to you)

[18T220]

@vitkiktiv

o.k these people wan't nobody to use fossil fuels right, but these people rely on fossil fuels just like all of us.

Unless these people use no electricity, buses, cars, trains, shop food, delivered goods, mobile phones, gas then they should be protesting.

[vitkiktiv]

@18T220 Can you please elaborate on why you accuse me of being an hypocrite ? :)

[18T220]

@vitkiktiv

Loser, you need a job. You people are such hypocrites.